Icecast Release 2.5.0-rc2
We are pleased to announce Icecast 2.5.0-rc2 (2.4.999.2).
This is a rc release. Usage in production should be with caution, but we recommend broad testing.
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Security updates
This release comes with no specific security fixes.
However some of the changes below might improve security.
Miscellaneous updates
- Require libigloo 2.9.4
- Updated Icecast installer and run helper on Windows
- Added support for build-info (to be used by downstream distributions)
New features
- Web interface
- General improvements of web interface
- Added warning if a stream has no language set
- Added more information on legacy clients on dashboard
- Events
- Added support to terminate Icecast using an event
- Internals
- Added checks for file permissions
Fixes and Cleanup
- Fixed HTTP keep alive handling for legacy clients. This works around a bug in PHP
- Provide internal fallback implementations for string matching functions missing on Windows
- Improved keep alive handling for URL Auth backend
- Improved log output
- Fixed incorrect header handling in FLAC streams
Posted Dec 14, 2025 by phschafft
